The Academic Minute from 11.25 – 11.29
Monday
Matthew Powers – University of Washington
Why Would Anyone Still Want to be a Journalist?
Matthew Powers is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he co-directs the Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy. With Sandra Vera-Zambrano, he is the author of The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession.
Wändi Bruine de Bruin—Director of Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative, Schaeffer Institute of Public Policy & Government Service, USC Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences—also contributed to this research.
Tuesday
Zach Kowaleski – University of Texas at Austin
Regulation Can Have Benefits Along with Burdens
Zach studies the effect of institutional settings on behavior using the audit and broker-dealer professions. Zach was formerly on faculty at the University of Notre Dame, an Economic Research Fellow at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and worked four years in PwC’s audit practice between earning his BBA, MAcc, and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wednesday
Fernanda Gallo – University of Cambridge
Italy and the United States of Europe
Fernanda Gallo is an historian of political thought of the long nineteenth century. She is Associate Professor in History and Politics at the University of Cambridge (Homerton College). Her latest book is Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 (forthcoming, September 2024).
Thursday
Philip Sponenberg – Virginia Maryland Regional College of Vet Medicine
Geese & Turkeys
Dr. Phillip Sponenberg is a professor of pathology and genetics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech. Sponenberg received his DVM from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in veterinary medicine from Cornell University in 1979. He joined the faculty of the college in 1981. Sponenberg’s research interests are genetics of domesticated animals, coat color genetics, conservation of rare breeds of livestock, diagnostic pathology, and reproductive pathology. Sponenberg is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association. Sponenberg also serves as the technical programs director of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.
Friday
Colleen Kirk – New York Institute of Technology
Psychological Ownership and Shopping
Colleen P. Kirk’s research centers around consumer behavior, especially in the areas of psychological ownership, emotions, and decision-making. Specific areas of interest include: exploring how and when consumers’ feelings of ownership lead to territorial responses; understanding how consumers come to feel a sense of ownership of intangible digital technologies and its implications for marketers; narcissism in consumer behavior; and nonconscious processing and investor behavior. Focusing her research on experimental design, Dr. Kirk is also interested in survey methodologies and structural equation modeling. Her work is published in top journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Advertising Research, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Brand Management, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. An award-winning researcher and reviewer, she presents at leading national and international conferences, and is a regular reviewer for top journals.
